INTRODUCTION To determine the validity and reliability of the Sinhalese translation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) as a screening instrument to detect antenatal and postnatal depression. METHOD Two hundred and sixty five antenatal women and 204 postnatal women attending the field polyclinics of the Medical Officer of Health (MOH) area Kolonnawa participated in the study. P...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence is frequently only disclosed when healthcare staff directly inquire. Healthcare staff worry that inquiry may offend. AIM To identify the characteristics of women who find inquiry about domestic violence by healthcare staff unacceptable. DESIGN OF STUDY Anonymous interview based cross-sectional study. SETTING Three general practice surgeries, one antenatal clin...

A interventional study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching on knowledge of selected risk factors related to low birth weight babies among antenatal mothers in selected hospital at Vidarbha region. Objectives: 1 To assess the knowledge regarding selected risk factors related to low birth weight babies among antenatal mothers. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of planned ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies demonstrate that people's satisfaction with healthcare influences their further use of that healthcare system. Satisfied patients are more likely to take part in the decision making process and to complete treatment. One of the important determinants of satisfaction is the fulfillment of expectations. This study aims to analyse both expectations and satisfaction with...

BACKGROUND Uganda records an inadequate utilisation of antenatal care programmes. The study set out to investigate the factors associated with the use of antenatal care content to inform policy makers of the pertinent factors that need to be influenced by policy. METHOD Data for the study was taken from a nationally representative Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) 2006. The study em...

Antenatal steroid treatment decreases morbidity and mortality in premature infants through the maturation of lung tissue, which enables sufficient breathing performance. However, clinical and animal studies have shown that repeated doses of glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone and betamethasone lead to long-term adverse effects on brain development. Therefore, we established a mouse model for ...

BACKGROUND The antenatal detection of fetal growth restriction is a focus point of antenatal care. If detected fetal demise may be prevented and perinatal complications could be managed more appropriately. AIMS To investigate whether introducing serial plotting on customised fundal height charts can increase the detection rate of small for gestational age (SGA) fetuses in low risk nulliparous...

22 Objective: To determine how urine dipstick test, edema, and/or excessive weight gain 23 (EWG, defined as ≥ 500 g/week) at antenatal visits predict significant proteinuria 24 (defined as a protein-to-creatinine ratio [P/Cr, mg/mg] ≥ 0.27) and preeclampsia. 25 Methods: Data from 3279 antenatal visits between 30 and 36 weeks of gestation were 26 studied in 783 women with singleton pregnancies. ...

(N Engl J Med. 2020;383:2514–2525) Antenatal glucocorticoids are a common intervention in preventing adverse outcomes associated with preterm birth. The evidence supporting this is based on trials high-resource settings, however, and 2015 trial low-resource countries found scaling up caused an increase neonatal death, stillbirth suspected maternal infection. World Health Organization (WHO) has ...